Wow QT what a comment. How would an American that has been subjected to the wrath of Katrina respond to your query?
I'm down here in Homestead Florida feeling pretty darn thankful for our small loses to Katrina after I viewed the television coverage of New Orleans, Mississippi, etc. I did hear some incredible comments given by an interviewer from Europe on the Fox News today say that a lot of Europeans think Americans deserve this disaster because of global warming and something about Americans having three cars to a household.
I know being an American is not as popular as it use to be (more popular during/after WWI and WWII), but if a photographer would come to Homestead Florida to photograph the three car homes I would gladly drive them through this lovely community to search for such a windfall. It doesn't exist here!
Like a lot of America today, Homestead Florida is economically in the dumps and full of immigrants. Most of the immigrants are here illegally at the mercy of the so-called greedy hard working American who pays his taxes to support them and their families. I could get into this, but then I would probably appall so many forum readers you would delete this message.
Instead of photographing three car homes, right now the picture where I am at is one of incredible stench. I am lucky enough to live on the rural side of Homestead where the horses, cows, goats, chickens and lots of stray dogs usually live. Unfortunately a lot of those animals are laying out in the fields and side of roads, bloated and very dead. I see great pictures of an American tragedy, but then you suggest it probably is only being thrown out on this forum by Americans because we are very close to it and not just on the other side of the TV screen. Well I do not think it is a bad thing to talk about it. It may actually help someone who is depressed over the scene just to know that others shed some sympathy and compassion their way.
“Could it be the fact that the victims are, this time, American strike a particular chord with the American readership on this forum?”
I think the recent financial aid and services donated by America and her hard working people speak to how American’s respond to tragedies globally. This response is not intended to inflame anyone, but your query is questionable to me, but I do not know how the forum readership went when other natural disasters happened abroad and/or nationally in the U.S.
Give cash to the <font color=red>American Red Cross</font color> just as you did for the tsunami tragedy!
Darlene
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